Diana Roberts

Austin Real Estate Advisor

Texas Certified General Real Estate Appraiser

Diana Roberts is a Compass Austin real estate advisor, Texas Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, California broker, and former brokerage owner with more than 23 years of experience helping clients make informed real estate decisions.

Her approach combines an appraiser’s discipline, an owner’s accountability, and a marketer’s understanding of how buyers respond to a property. Diana studies the complete home—not simply its square footage or ZIP code—to help clients understand supported value, current competition, market positioning, and the tradeoffs behind each decision.

Real valuation—not an estimate, not a guess.

Originally from Budapest, Hungary, Diana came to the United States after studying international marketing at Oxford Brookes University. She earned her California broker license in 2003 and built her early real estate career in Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach.

In 2011, Diana co-founded Pier to Pier Brokers, an independent South Bay brokerage she helped build before joining Compass in 2019 as a founding member of the company’s Manhattan Beach and South Bay presence. Her career includes more than $600 million in real estate sales across California and Texas.

Diana and her family moved to Austin in 2020 and made Serene Hills their home. Today, she advises buyers and sellers throughout Austin, Lakeway, Bee Cave, Serene Hills, Lake Travis, Westlake, Rollingwood, Barton Creek, Tarrytown, Clarksville, Spicewood, Dripping Springs, and the surrounding Hill Country.

An Appraiser’s Perspective

Austin properties rarely fit neatly into an automated estimate or simple price-per-square-foot calculation. Lot position, privacy, views, topography, construction quality, renovations, condition, floor-plan functionality, taxes, competing inventory, and buyer demand can all materially affect value.

Diana’s appraisal education and experience bring greater structure to these questions. She evaluates the specific property, identifies the most relevant comparable evidence, studies current competition, and explains where the market evidence is strong—and where better judgment is required.

For sellers, that means separating an aspirational number from a defensible pricing and launch strategy. Diana’s goal is not to win a listing by suggesting the highest price. It is to explain the evidence, position the property intelligently, and protect the seller’s strongest opportunity to capture buyer attention.

For buyers, her valuation background provides a clearer understanding of property differences, potential risks, market value, and negotiating position. She helps clients recognize when a home supports its price, when an apparent bargain may carry hidden compromises, and when a distinctive property requires analysis beyond neighborhood averages.

When Diana is acting as a real estate advisor, her appraisal background informs her brokerage strategy. A formal appraisal is a separate professional engagement with its own client, intended use, scope of work, and reporting requirements.

Local Knowledge, Property by Property

As a Serene Hills resident, Diana brings firsthand knowledge of Lakeway, Bee Cave, Lake Travis, and the greater West Austin market. She understands that meaningful differences can exist not only between neighborhoods, but between two homes on the same street.

Her analysis considers greenbelt access, privacy, views, pools, architectural style, construction, renovation quality, school boundaries, road influence, current inventory, and the way buyers are responding in real time.

Diana also publishes Serene Hills Monthly, an independent neighborhood publication covering local real estate activity, community developments, events, and issues affecting area residents.

The Compass Advantage

Diana brings independent judgment and decades of experience to every client relationship. Compass provides the technology, marketing resources, national network, and operational support to help her execute at a higher level.

For sellers, Diana creates a property-specific launch strategy using the appropriate combination of Compass Private Exclusive, Compass Coming Soon, public-market exposure, buyer-demand insights, and Compass One transaction transparency. The strategy is never one-size-fits-all. Each phase is evaluated based on the property, the seller’s priorities, privacy, timing, current demand, and the benefits of broader exposure.

For buyers, Compass Collections creates a more organized and collaborative search experience, while Diana’s relationships across Austin and the national Compass network can provide valuable market intelligence, relocation support, and access to properties before or outside a traditional public-market search.

Diana is known for direct communication, thorough preparation, calm guidance, and advice grounded in the property itself. Whether a client is buying, selling, relocating, or trying to understand what a home is really worth, she believes better decisions begin with better questions and an honest conversation.

Know what to ask. Know what to offer. Know Diana.

Diana Roberts
Austin Real Estate Advisor
Texas Certified General Real Estate Appraiser
California Broker

Phone: 512.888.8326
Email: diana.roberts@compass.com
Website: DianaSellsATX.com